St. John's Horse Show

Show horses in the paddocks at Rye, N. Y., last week craned their necks as far as halter straps permitted. A stranger was coming among them. He was an elderly gentleman rigged squarishly in black clothes; he wore gloves and a blocky black hat. One horse, a jumper, he patted on the nose. The horse wiggled the hairs on its lip. This stranger loved horses. He was, in fact Bishop William Thomas Manning who had gone with one of his daughters (Frances) to the opening of the second yearly Cathedral Horse Show. Earnings of the show fortify the endowment of the Sportsmen's Bay in the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine,* which under Bishop Manning's own sight has been raising its gorgeous walls on Manhattan's heights. The Bishop, at the Cathedral Horse Show, made plain his pleasure with sports. "The horse show is a real tribute to sport," said Bishop Manning. "It exemplifies to the highest degree the spirit which is responsible for the Sportsmen's Bay in the Cathedral. I feel that the Sportsmen's Bay is one of the most significant and interesting things in the Cathedral. It surely is a very great thing to have in the greatest house of worship in our land that magnificent and conspicuous symbol of the relationship of clean and wholesome sport in all its forms to life and to religion." Sports represented in the Sportsmen's Bay are:

Polo Rowing

Golf Track

Tennis Football

Baseball Skating

The Steeple chase Hockey

Cycling Soccer

Basketball Fencing

Handball Wrestling

Swimming Pole vaulting

Gymnastics Boxing

Yachting Motorboating

Billiards Bowling-in-the-Alley

Racing

* Fourth largest cathedral in the world. It is exceeded in size by only St. Peter's in Rome, the Mezquita in Cordoba, the Santa Maria de la Sede in Seville.